On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 07:28:24PM -0600, average wrote:
As to your question of how best to handle inquiries from the blue or
noisy questions, I personally prefer the following (only slightly
tongue-in-cheek):
...After a sufficient period of waiting, say a day or two with no response:
Oleg Broytman writes:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 07:28:24PM -0600, average wrote:
As to your question of how best to handle inquiries from the blue or
noisy questions, I personally prefer the following (only slightly
tongue-in-cheek):
...After a sufficient period of waiting, say a
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 06:02:33PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Oleg Broytman writes:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 07:28:24PM -0600, average wrote:
As to your question of how best to handle inquiries from the blue or
noisy questions, I personally prefer the following (only slightly
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:02:33 pm Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
OTOH I think as quick as possible an answer is a good idea here. It
saves the intended audience the thought about whether to reply or
not, and an instant, constructive answer says that somebody cares.
+1
I think that waiting a day
...After a sufficient period of waiting, say a day or two with no
response:
Ok, I'll wait a bit longer.
I don't think that's a good idea.
My bad, I really only meant a sufficient delay to allow the
possibility of an interested party replying. I actually figured
about a day.
On 7/22/2010 3:29 PM, average wrote:
Speacking of etiquette, it is traditional to use real names in the from
field on pydev. It will get you more attention and respect.
A reference or link to ESR's How to Ask Questions The Smart Way
(http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) is a pretty
On 7/22/2010 8:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:02:33 pm Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
OTOH I think as quick as possible an answer is a good idea here. It
saves the intended audience the thought about whether to reply or
not, and an instant, constructive answer says that
On 22/07/2010 23:25, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 7/22/2010 8:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:02:33 pm Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
OTOH I think as quick as possible an answer is a good idea here. It
saves the intended audience the thought about whether to reply or
not, and an
Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info writes:
We don't need to make excuses for why we don't give the answer here.
It's enough to give the reason -- it's off-topic for this list, which
is about the development of Python. That and a pointer to the right
list is, in my opinion, all we need to
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:59:32 am Ben Finney wrote:
Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info writes:
We don't need to make excuses for why we don't give the answer
here. It's enough to give the reason -- it's off-topic for this
list, which is about the development of Python. That and a pointer
No, the reply is fine as far as it goes, and I am sure the poster did
get a reply from c.l.py, but his question revealed a thirst for
knowledge not usually evidenced in non-dev inquiries.
Unfortunately (?) the question also revealed a lack of understanding
of a fairly basic concept. IIUC, he
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote:
Unfortunately (?) the question also revealed a lack of understanding
of a fairly basic concept. IIUC, he wanted to know how Python
handles SIGKILL, when the hole point of SIGKILL is that you cannot
handle it. So he
1. I suggested one improvement to the canned response in my previous
post: expand 'using' to 'using or understanding'.
I changed wording to if you're having problems learning, understanding
or using Python
I think it's critical to disambiguate between questions about using
and programming
On 21/07/10 23:43, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
IIUC, he wanted to know how Python
handles SIGKILL, when the hole point of SIGKILL is that you cannot
handle it.
No, I think he wanted to know how Python disallows
attempting to set a handler for SIGKILL, when he
couldn't find any code that
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 04:08:00PM -0600, average wrote:
Wha? How could this not be the right place? He's not asking about
USING python, but asking: WHERE in the PYTHON CODE BASE does the
signal get checked?
A-bit-miffed-at-the-cold-shoulderly yours,
Marcos (wink wink)
I know, the
On 7/20/2010 11:59 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 04:08:00PM -0600, average wrote:
Wha? How could this not be the right place? He's not asking about
USING python, but asking: WHERE in the PYTHON CODE BASE does the
signal get checked?
A-bit-miffed-at-the-cold-shoulderly
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Oleg Broytman p...@phd.pp.ru wrote:
..
I know, the task of sending answers like I've sent is quite
unappreciated. I know, the meaning of my answer is rude because, in short,
it's simply Please, go away, and however I stress the please part it's
still go away.
On 7/20/2010 6:59 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
I know, the task of sending answers like I've sent is quite
unappreciated.
*I* appreciate it. I mostly do not respond to such because I expect you
or Aahz will.
I know, the meaning of my answer is rude because, in short,
it's simply Please,
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 01:51:07PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 7/20/2010 6:59 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
1. I suggested one improvement to the canned response in my previous
post: expand 'using' to 'using or understanding'.
I changed wording to if you're having problems learning,
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